Word: embarrassments
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Recently, when the papers were ready for release, the British objected; they feared that publication would embarrass Sir Winston, the only surviving member of the Big Three. Because of this objection, the State Department decided to give the text only to 24 congressional leaders on a confidential basis. After some Democrats (including Georgia's venerable Walter George, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee) refused to accept copies, on the ground that they could not be kept confidential, the State Department decided to release none. But then a copy was "leaked" to the New York Times (see PRESS...
...hearings at which Galbraith testified on March 8 concluded yesterday. In a final statement before adjournment, Capehart reiterated his belief that the hearing was designed "to embarrass the Eisenhower administration and to cause the people to lose confidence in the economy...
Senator Homer E. Capehart (R-Ind) yesterday continued his verbal attack upon John Kenneth Galbraith, professor of Economics, by accusing the professor of "coming down to Washington to sell a book and embarrass the Eisenhower administration...
...richest of them and moved to the bigger town of Bernay. There the local shooting club welcomed him with open arms and were only slightly put out when Roger missed the target completely at his first shoot. "I suppose," said one member, "that he didn't want to embarrass us." Soon afterward Roger resigned, to assume the presidency of what he called the International Federation of Professional Marksmen...
...Order approved. But the priest's diocesan superior, Quebec Archbishop Maurice Roy, vetoed it. Ottawa Archbishop Marie-Joseph Lemieux and Paul-Emile Cardinal Léger of Montreal agreed with Archbishop Roy's stand that the unprecedented * appointment of a priest to a political post might eventually embarrass the church...